Cultivating implement.



UNITED STATES Patented May 3, 1904.

PATENT OEEICE.

JAMES T. JORDAN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

CULTIVATINC-` IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming partiof Letters Patent No. 7 58,971, dated. May 3, 1904. Application led October 14, 1901i Serial No. 78,650. KNO model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES T. JORDAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State placed, and renewed. y

The lnvention is appllcable 1n varlous forms,

but is more especially designed for a gardentool, in which foim itis illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure I is a perspective view of the cultivator applied as a garden-tool and the parts arranged to bring the teeth widely apart. Fig. II is a fragmental plan detail of the same. Fig. III is a detail showing the teeth in place before they are secured by the clamping device. Dotted lines indicate the position of the teeth when the same are arranged closely together. Fig. IV is a detail view ofthe toothcarrier and the clamping-piece detached. Fig. Vis a section on line V V, Fig. II. Fig. VI is a section on line VI VI, Fig. II.

1 designates a tooth-carrier. 2 3 designate teeth detachably connected with said carrier and constructed with laterally-deiiected attaching portions a; 1J to engage the carrier 1 at the opposite edges thereof interchangeably, whereby by transposng the teeth, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. III, the points c thereof may be brought closer to or farther from each other, as the case may be. The carrier member 1 is provided with seats d c to interchangeably receive Shanks c and b of the teeth 2 and 3. Y Said seats 0l and c are preferably divergent or at an angle with veach other and with the axis of the carrier 1, the seats and the deflected shanks being constructed with such relation to each other as to'appropriately position the points c when the Shanks are seated in said seats. The respecy-tive seats are preferably grooves terminating in holesf, respectively extending at an angle to said groove, and the shanks of the teeth are bent, as indicated as g, to enter said holes.

The carrier 1 ispreferably provided in its face' with a third seat, k, midway between the seats d and c and extending coaxially of the carrier.

4 designates a middle tooth furnished with a shank c', seated in the seat JL. The shank of -is furnished with a socket 11, (indicated in dotted lines in Fig. IL) in which a handle 12 is fastened.

The cultivator-teeth 13 'are preferably detachably connected v with their respective Shanks by means of bolts and nuts 14 and 15.

kthe middle tooth is not deflected laterally, but y In practice the teeth may be readily applied and removed, and the side shanks 2 and 3 may be transposed from side to side at the pleasure of the operator to produce an implement of greater or less width. If it is desired to cultivate between narrow rows of vegetables, the teeth will be adjusted as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. III. When it is desired to cultivate with the teeth farther apart, the teeth will be adjusted as shown in solid lines..

By the grooved and hollowed arrangement shownthe appliance is brought into a compact and attractive form, and great strength with minimum weight is secured. .The members are hollowed, as shown, to receive the Shanks and are arranged to approximately lit together, and thereby provide for the compact and attractive form shown.

What I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A cultivator comprising a carrier memterchangeably, whereby, by transposng the teeth, the points thereof may be brought closer to or farther from each other.

2. A cultivator comprising a carrier member, with a central seat 'and a divergent seat on each side thereof, a tooth member having a straight shank adapted to engage Said central seat, and tooth members having Shanks with deflected portions.

3. A cultivator comprising a carrier member formed of two clamping-pieces with divergent grooves on their adjacent faces, and tooth members having Shanks held in said seats, a plurality of such tooth members having their Shanks deiiected to vary the position of the respective tooth members on interchanging them in thc seats.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, at Los Angeles, California, this 7th day of October, 1901.

JAMES T. JORDAN.

Witnesses:

JAMES R. TOWNSEND, JULIA TOWNSEND. 

